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Unwanted dogs abandoned by the public are placing a drain on the resources of the Humane Society of Grand Bahama.<\/p>\nUnwanted dogs abandoned by the public are placing a drain on the resources of the Humane Society of Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n
In July 194 new animals were taken in by the Humane Society.<\/p>\n
“July was the largest number of animals we’ve ever taken in during a given month,” said Tip Burrows executive director of the Humane Society of Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n
The influx of animals brought the total number of animals at the facility to 404. Of this number, 362 of them were dogs and puppies.<\/p>\n
Burrows maintained that while the organization is able to house the animals comfortably, the situation is not ideal because at capacity the facility likes to hold 200 animals.<\/p>\n
“The ones that are here are being housed comfortably but we can’t afford to take care of that many,” she said.<\/p>\n
She explained that the Society receives no funding from the government or local government and the organization is solely responsible for maintaining the animal population in Freeport.<\/p>\n
Burrows noted that many persons acquire dogs as pets when they are puppies, but they are not fully committed to taking care of them.<\/p>\n
It is these same animals she further stated that later contribute to the stray dog population on the island.<\/p>\n
“Too many people acquire a puppy on impulse because it’s there and cute. They don’t think about the commitment that they should be making to that animal.”<\/p>\n
She added that a part of the problem is that it is too easy for people to get a puppy because in many cases persons get animals from their neighbours.<\/p>\n
Burrows added with a degree of frustration that in many cases pet owners fail to take the animals to the veterinarian to get their shots or have them spayed or neutered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Grand Bahama Humane Society has taken in a heavy influx of unwanted dogs abandoned by irresponsible owners, a serious societal problem in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}